Boy, 13, catches 250-pound shark in fishing line off Jersey coast

A 13-year-old boy has got some major bragging points to lord over his friends this week, after catching a nearly 250-pound shark in his fisher’s line off of Long Beach Island.

Joe Mandile told 7 ABC that he and his son Gianni have been fishing together since the boy was 3 years old.

“I didn’t expect to catch something that big,” Gianni told the station. “Because other people have caught those types of fish but usually at night, so I wasn’t expecting to catch it in the middle of the day.”